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NIELIT’s ambitious project
Highlighting the importance of skill development in making a success of the National Digital Literacy Mission and Digital India Campaign of the Government of India, the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), a body with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY),
Hyderabad: Highlighting the importance of skill development in making a success of the National Digital Literacy Mission and Digital India Campaign of the Government of India, the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), a body with the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY), Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India laid the foundation stone of its headquarters at Dwarka in New Delhi on Friday.
NIELIT is a part of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & IT.The Government also launched a national toll-free helpline number 1800-11-65-11 for NIELIT students, Electronic System Dsign and Manufacturing (ESDM) portal and Digital Marketing Information Booklet on the occasion.
NIELIT has trained over 20 lakh students in the last two decades across 31 NIELIT centers. NIELIT has also set an ambitious target of training 55 lakh students in ICT for jobs, ESDM and Digital Marketing courses in the coming 4-5 years, which is in-line with the government’s thrust on the Digital India Campaign.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister for Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said, NIELIT will minimise the digital divide through skill development and by providing basic digital literacy at a click of a button.
